Following up on the words you need to know in the cyberworld today is "bacn," pronounced like the greasy breakfast staple. It describes those emails you receive that you want, but just not yet. You'll get to them later. Wikipedia defines the term as "electronic messages which have been subscribed to and are therefore not unsolicted but are often unread by the recipient for a long period of time."
Bacn2.com explains the term's origin, "If you look at the history and origins of the name Spam, you will soon realize that Bacn continues where Spam has left off and sets the internet up for Sausage in the future. This name may be silly, but so was Spam when it was first introduced."
The official Gmail blog explains, "I get a bunch of messages every day from sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, all of which are important to me but which I don't need to see immediately. In fact, I'd like to defer them until later, for my late-night Family Guy-email sessions."
Lingo 2.0: Bacn
Email You Want, But Not Right Now
Trend Themes
1. Deferred Email - Opportunity for an email client to introduce a feature allowing users to schedule when they receive specific emails they want to defer.
2. Email Management - Opportunity to innovate solutions or applications for email management to categorize emails based on their urgency and relevance.
3. Automated Email Replies - Opportunity for an email client to introduce a feature that can generate an automated email reply with a specific time-frame when users want to defer emails.
Industry Implications
1. Email Service Providers - Opportunity for email service providers to innovate solutions to manage deferred emails effectively.
2. Productivity Tools - Opportunity for productivity tools to expand their offering by introducing applications that can categorize emails based on their importance and defer them automatically.
3. Digital Pas - Opportunity for digital personal assistants to manage deferred emails for their users based on their input and preferences.